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Cells spherical to short ovoid. In older cultures and in pellicles also long 

 sprouting- cells and very long, septate branched hypliae, bearing terminal 

 chains of ovoid or spherical white blastospores. Blastospores sprouting. 



Giant colonies usually pure white, moist, shining, elevated. With age the 

 surface becomes somewhat drier, with a depression in the center which ap- 

 pears hairy. The periphery is correspondingly elevated. The gelatin adjacent 

 to the surface colonies is somewhat depressed. Th^ colonies in the depths of 

 the medium appear spherical or star-shaped. Culture lias a pleasant, sour 



Fig. 49. — Monllia (Candida Langeron & Talice). 1, chains of ellipsoid blastospores; 

 2, chains at tips of filaments ; 3, terminal chains and veiticlllate branching. (After Langeron 

 & Talice 1932.) 



odor. On malt gelatin streak, growth is broad, thick, white, with deep folds 

 starting parallel to the streak and ending perpendicular to the periphery. 

 With age, colony becomes dry and powdery. Growth similar on stab though 

 not much in depths of medium. In malt extract, beer, or whey, a pellicle is 

 formed. In the latter at 25° C, abundant, flocculent growth. Ferments 

 glucose, fructose, maltose, and sucrose. Malt gelatin slightly liquefied in 2 

 weeks, completely in 6-8 weeks. 



